LEARNING FACTORY GETS ITS FIRST MAJOR CONTENT UPDATE

Luden.io is happy to announce the first major update for Learning Factory, its factory automation game with machine learning elements (and lots of cats). In this new update, to be released on April 22nd, players will be able to enjoy a new game, create their own maps thanks to a new procedural map generator and enjoy a bunch of quality of life improvements. Learning Factory is available for €11.99/$14.99 on Steam.

The procedural map generator will allow players to create unique maps, instead of having just one available as of now. The possibilities are now endless, so players will decide what kind of challenge they want to face. Will you create your factory in a hilly area? Or perhaps on a bunch of islands? Learning Factory also features a new character design, an unlockable hoverboard that will help you move faster around your factory as well as new machines and new resources, like cloth. Luden.io has started a series of dev diaries and livestreams-- be sure to follow them so you don't miss out on any updates about Learning Factory!

Learning Factory is a factory automation game where you have to design and build increasingly big and complex factories to make goods for cats. However, it brings a unique twist to the genre thanks to machine learning: you also have to collect feedback from your feline clients and analyze their data with machine learning models until you understand how to really make them happy! 


Just like Luden.io's previous game, the acclaimed puzzle game about machine learning while True: learn(), Learning Factory is backed by specialists in the subject, and implements real-world machine learning models. If you want to learn more about this key discipline in today's world, you will get to understand how big data is collected and processed to get useful information out of it. Or you can just focus on making the biggest, quirkiest factories for your cats, of course!

ABOUT LEARNING FACTORY

Learning Factory is a factory automation game where you have to build an increasingly bigger and complex factory, named KOTOVOD and located on Mars, to make goods for cats. Then you get data about sales analyzing what cats liked or disliked, and use this data with machine learning models to optimize prices and make sure you're selling what cats really long for. Backed by actual specialists in the matter and using real-world machine learning models, the game aims also at teaching how big data is collected and processed in machine learning. You will be learning about two of the most relevant technologies of our time while you play a super fun strategy game -- if you want to, that is; because at its true heart it's above all a quirkily engaging factory automation game with lots of cats in it! 

LEARNING FACTORY'S NEW BUILD FEATURES:

• Enjoy a procedural map generator that will allow the creation of unique maps with all kinds of landscapes and options (will you be able to create a factory on a bunch of islands?)
• Design your dream island thanks to a tool that allows lifting and relocating pieces of ground, along with growing plants
• Play the new Freeplay Mode, that will let you build a factory with no ties to the tutorial.
• Move faster in a new hoverboard (an unlockable item through research)
• New character design (with a cat sticking out of his backpack)
• New machine for production: the Loom
• New resource: Cloth
• A factory analytics tool hat will detect issues in sales and/or production and will show graphs to the players so they can solve them
• Updated art and animations as well as bug fixes
• Updated localizations